Detail of the claws worn by Michelle Pfeiffer
during the filming of Batman Returns (1992)
Made by Scott Schneider, they were constructed of thimbles, thumb-picks (a finger-tip “ring” form of guitar pick), small razors and blades from swiss army knives along with a few random parts of sharp metal all bound together with wire. The idea was for it to seem like in the process of becoming unhinged, she used whatever she had on hand to create them.
late 12th-century manuscript thought to hail from England or Northern France, once owned by the monastery at Ourscamps just north of Paris, and now in the collection at the British Library (BL Sloane 1975 ) anyways happy420 then, now and forever <3
when observing hissing cockroaches, you might have noticed a few brown specks scrambling over their backs or gathered in the seams of their exoskeleton. they are Androlaelaps schaeferi, a species of mite that lives its whole lifespan onboard a giant cockroach host! the commensal A. schaeferi isn’t a parasite, though, and takes its meals from its hosts’ own. if the mite’s mooching helps clean where the roach itself can’t, the relationship might even be considered mutualism, where both species benefit.
on the white of a freshly molted roach, the mites are particularly conspicuous, and even the pale juveniles stand out.